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While vaccines dramatically reduce death from COVID (and boosters even more so), the breakthrough/spillover deaths of vaccinated people continue to mount. An estimated 80-100,000 through March 2021. @wsbgnl/1505128870894137344
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The survival of vaccinated people is still linked to levels of community spread and precautions against infection.
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As expected from initial data on immune escape, Omicron dramatically increased the share of deaths borne by vaccinated people.
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Even if one decides to ignore "the pandemic of the unvaccinated" (largely concentrated on poor and medically vulnerable people), the pandemic among the vaccinated remains a public health emergency claiming 100,000 lives per year.
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* first tweet should read 80,000 to 110,000 breakthrough deaths.